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fnord77··on CoreWeave bond yield tops 16% as AI credit stress rises
totally crazy that Google has bonds yielding 5.68%

That's a great return for practically zero risk.

(If google defaults on bonds there's much bigger problems in the world than the loss of your capital)

fnord77··on Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far
astra high is on the Pareto front and just in the green zone
fnord77··on GitHub's new Git storage architecture
they were implying the mystery repo was getting about 3 million pushes per day
fnord77··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
interesting, I would have guess Tauri. til GPUI
fnord77··on GitHub's new Git storage architecture
Which repo were they referring to that was growing too big vertically?
fnord77··on US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months
I think your 2008 comparison breaks down here

- Many underlying obligations are backed by insanely profitable companies.

- Financing involves long-term leases rather than short-term funding.

- Rating agencies analyze these off-balance-sheet obligations.

fnord77··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
same way Daleks do
fnord77··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
He was a fictional leader. In a fictional utopia.
fnord77··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
Wherein I predict phds do not make good politicians.

Oh in fact, there's a term for it

Out-of-Domain Appeal to Authority

fnord77··on Tell HN: Scribd Breached
I don't even think they actually pirated book pdfs. Just previews to get you to sign up that lead to no where
fnord77··on Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
so, are LLMs going to be come the universal computing medium?
fnord77··on I didn't know I was lacking in Vitamin D until I collapsed at work
linking.

One could say depressed people stay in bed all day and don't go outside and get sunlight, thus low vit d

fnord77··on Just Noting That Your Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions
I guess the atlantic ran out of AI doom bait articles.
fnord77··on Study: Schoolwide phone bans show no significant impact on mental health
> Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Odgers reported membership on the Youth and Families Advisory Committee for YouTube.

All you need to know

fnord77··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Ternus is defending the touch screen

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/28/apple-executives-touch-...

fnord77··on Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
A bit more than that. You need to understand Hessians to compute the loss function efficiently
fnord77··on New iPad mini
reading books in the bath tub / hot tub /pool side

yeah or business uses outside in the rain

fnord77··on CNC Stone Carving
cybermonks of wyoming

love it

fnord77··on New iPad mini
it's water resistant

that's huge

fnord77··on Show HN: I put employees inside S&P 500 market-cap bubbles
I think revenue per employee is more interesting. By this measure, tech companies are minuscule compared to energy and real estate companies.

https://i.imgur.com/4DPs1Io.png

https://i.imgur.com/LgFx831.png

fnord77··on Docker is weird
How does it feel to have fundamentally changed how many/most enterprise software runs?
fnord77··on Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not
2040: Butlerian Jihad
fnord77··on Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall
charge admission to view it
fnord77··on C++26: The New Debugging Header
The chance that it is AI is much higher than the chance a human would use an em-dash (and not just an easily typeable "-" ) in a PR.

I bet that could be modeled with a markov chain

fnord77··on Jev meets the Trolley Problem
People who think about the trolley problem and similar are a massive red flag for me.
fnord77··on Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat
Apple is sherlocking the "iphone xxxx teardown" websites
fnord77··on Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
> WHO is actually falling for this in the big 2026????

some 13 year old on his dad's Dell

fnord77··on Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2026 Cancelled
You haven't seen San Francisco non-profits. There's a web of them controlled by the same gang of people who are taking in billions from the state and the city.
fnord77··on Eric Binnion has died
I guess his friends/colleagues didn't actually care enough to write it without AI
fnord77··on Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled
This had nothing to do with DEI.

It has everything to do with something we're not allowed to criticize.

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